To J. D. Hooker 3 February [1868]
Summary
Comments on Wollaston’s troubles
and his book [Coleoptera Hesperidum (1867)].
Mohl’s claim to foreign membership in Royal Society very strong.
Has been in despair about Variation – not worth a fifth part of the labour it cost him.
Is reading F. A. W. Miquel’s Flora du Japon [Prolusio florae Japonicae (1866–7)]; wonders whether A. Murray could be correct in his view that an area of the sea prevented Asiatico-Japan flora colonising western N. America.
Comments on A. Murray’s book [Geographical distribution of mammals (1866)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 3 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 44–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5835 |
From J. D. Hooker 22 June 1868
Summary
The grass [see 6243] is Sporobolus elongatus, common in the tropics.
Visit to Oxford with X Club.
On his forthcoming address.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 June 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 218–19 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6254 |
To J. J. Weir 7 May [1868]
Summary
Thanks JJW for his great assistance.
Discusses sexual selection in birds.
Sends queries on secondary sexual characteristics of birds.
Has often marvelled at the different growth of the flowering and creeping branches of ivy.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Jenner Weir |
Date: | 7 May [1868] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6165 |
To J. D. Hooker 1 September [1868]
Summary
Athenæum [Owen’s?] attack on JDH [BAAS address] and CD. False statement that CD’s sole groundwork is from pigeons.
Agrees with JDH on foolishness of Red Lion Club.
Huxley’s want of judgment.
JDH’s argument about astronomy and astronomers.
Pall Mall Gazette [8 (1868): 593, 595–6] and Morning Advertiser on JDH’s address.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 1 Sept [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 89–90 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6342 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … 1864 are in the Darwin Library–CUL (see Marginalia 1: 234). See letter from J. D. Hooker, …
- … Hooker had criticised this statement in his address ( J. D. Hooker 1868 , p. lxx). CD evidently refers to Marie Jean Pierre Flourens’s De la longévité humaine et de la quantité de vie sur le globe ( Flourens 1855 ) and Examen du livre de M. Darwin sur l’origine des espèces ( Flourens 1864 ); …
To Julius von Haast 28 January [1868]
Summary
Thanks JvH for J. Stack’s answers [to queries about expression]. Though few, they are the best and clearest he has received. Sends a corrected printed version of queries.
Belatedly thanks JvH for his splendid report on glaciers [missing].
CD lives "in constant state of overwork and fatigue".
Everyone astonished by Dinornis photos.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Francis Julius (Julius) von Haast |
Date: | 28 Jan [1868] |
Classmark: | Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand (Haast family papers, MS-Papers-0037-051-3) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5808 |
To T. H. Farrer 15 September [1868]
Summary
Comments on THF’s MS [on fertilisation of scarlet runners]. Suggests publication, though CD anticipated main features ten years before. Is amused at the caution with which THF put his case that the final end [of the contrivances] was crossing distinct individuals.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Date: | 15 Sept [1868] |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/4) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6365 |
From Charles William Nunn 23 September 1868
Summary
Sends an ear of wheat that has an oat kernel growing on it.
Author: | Charles W Nunn |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Sept 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 172: 79 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6387 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1864 , Correspondence vol. 14, letter from G. S. Gibson, 7 July 1866 , and Correspondence vol. 15, letter from Thomas Rivers, 26 April 1867 . In his letter to Nunn (see n. 1, above) CD had evidently written that the specimen must be soaked in order to determine that there had not been an accidental insertion of the oat florets (see letter to J. D. Hooker, …
To John Murray 25 May 1868
Summary
Asks JM to consider publishing a MS on John Wesley by CD’s niece, Frances Julia Wedgwood [John Wesley and the evangelical reaction of the eighteenth century (1870)].
Has received clean sheets for Italian translation [of Variation?].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 25 May 1868 |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff.186–189) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6207 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … J. D. Hooker, 21 May [1868] , n. 12. CD’s last letter to Murray has not been found. CD refers to William Ross King and to King 1866 ; he cited this book a number of times in Descent. Murray had agreed to publish William Sweetland Dallas’s translation of Fritz Müller’s Für Darwin ( F. Müller 1864 , …
From J. D. Hooker 3 October 1868
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Oct 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 238–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6410 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … J D Hooker Kew Oct r . 3/68. M r Ward informs me that there are people in the Seychelle islands who remember to have seen them alive in that group though he has failed hitherto to get any bones. I prefer however giving you chapter & verse when I can do so, and I therefore enclose you an extract from the journal of the Bishop of Mauritius, giving an account of his visit to Mahé in March 1864; …
To James Croll 19 September 1868
Summary
Discusses papers by JC dealing with erosion. Comments on papers on the subject by J. B. Jukes, A. C. Ramsay, and William Whitaker. Formerly believed in power of the sea. Never fully realised the truth until reading JC’s papers.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Croll |
Date: | 19 Sept 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 352 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6380 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1864, and Whitaker 1867 ( William Whitaker ). CD had corresponded with Andrew Crombie Ramsay and Joseph Beete Jukes about their theories (see Correspondence vol. 10). However, he had remained sceptical about the emphasis that they placed on the role of subaerial denudation (fluvial and glacial forces), as opposed to marine action. See Correspondence vol. 13, letter to J. D. Hooker, [ …
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